underexposed?

[Anthony_S]

http://www.anthonysloan.com/mtevans/mte13.jpg

Does this look too dark? Someone told me that it was "way underexposed".

TIA

[Scottes]

Look way underexposed to me, too.

Is your monitor calibrated? At least roughly?

[maderito]

Does this look too dark? Someone told me that it was "way underexposed".


Considering the shooting conditions, it's a pretty good capture. The goat is backlit and the dynamic range of the entire scene is quite large. The highlights have been pushed to near overexposure - but they're good. The midtones and shadows are underexposed.

The pic looks pretty good after levels correction (increase gamma to about 1.5) to bring out the midtones in the goat's fur without blowing the highlights. (I'm assuming you have Photoshop.)

Is that a mountain goat? Are you from British Columbia? Just curious. :)

[LightHunter]

Underexposed pictures can be post processed very good.

http://homepage.mac.com/ffack1/.Pictures/Forums/2004-06-26-AntonyS.jpg

[Radtech1]

Does this look too dark? Someone told me that it was "way underexposed".

I wouldnt say WAY too underexposed. Just needs a little touching up.

1) Ran it through Fred Mirandas Shadow Recovery (Best $20.00 I ever spent.) and then erased half of the "tweak layer" because I still wanted the rocks somewhat dark - as wide a dynamic range as could be pulled.

2) Lasooed the goat and increased contrast to 25 and brightness to 10, then desaturated a bit because he was now too yellow.

3) This blew out the highlight along the goats back so I cut them from the original shot and pasted them over the blown area.

Total time, including typing this: 10 minutes.

Not a profound difference, but I think a more pleasing exposure.

Rad

My Tweak:
http://home.ripway.com/2004-2/78486/Canon/mte13P.jpg


Original:
http://home.ripway.com/2004-2/78486/Canon/mte13.jpg

[stopbath]

Your base image is correctly exposed (more or less) to preserve the detail in the sun saturated mane of the animal.

Sadly, the display image (what you posted) is under exposed (unless that IS the exposure you want it at) and needs the contrast reduced (brighten the mid tones).